Gotchi Lodge 2023 budget revision

Author: Hefe#1514 Gotchi ID: #1043 (GMIFrens.lens) Quorum requirement: 20% (9M) Vote duration: 7 days Discord thread: https://discord.com/channels/732491344970383370/1084905113350570084/1084905113350570084

The 2023 Gotchi Lodge was a major success, with the Aavegotchi project being one of the best-represented projects at ETH Denver 2023.

The Lodge started with six core team members but quickly became Gotchi Hostel, accommodating seven Gotchigang cavalry members into the mix. These members proved to be critical to the great representation we had across all venues.

Key performance metrics proved challenging to quantify, but there was a noticeable increase in Twitter and discord engagement, Bazaar activity, External and internal enthusiasm for Aavegotchi, and BD/partnership leads post-event.

While the impact went far, we would like to fairly compensate all attending members at appropriate rates for the work done, and the initial budget set out for the event cannot accommodate that. Below is a complete breakdown of estimated vs actual hours, unforeseen expenses, preparation and long-tail labour (not taken into account), and finally, our request in USDC terms.

This being our first IRL activation as Aavegotchi DAO, we over-delivered and initially underestimated ourselves, and the current budget reflects that. As a team, we are coming away from this event with immense experience in planning future events.

Deliverables The team hit across all metrics in the initial proposal and then some. There was a noticeable increase in internal and external enthusiasm for the Aavegotchi protocol during our presence in Denver.

Estimated hours vs actual The original Estimate for a workday was: 7 hours/day $15/hr Ten days in total

Final Production Payout Structure was updated to: 12 hours/day (reflective of actual hours from arriving and leaving main venues) $21/hr Ten days in total for core event staff Additional days allocated for long tail labour regarding prep and post-production

Unforeseen Expenses Calvary team members' support; all who stepped up put in immense work and were critical to our mission. Most of them gave up their booth-browsing time to help us. Sticker production costs were late-stage additions, but immense value adds in promoting Aavegotchi + creating awareness for Fake Gotchis. Crafting supplies for Marijuana mansion Art Work Prints and Framing An extensive amount of driving for the vehicle team

Preparation and long-tail labour We genuinely undervalued and underestimated the work on the front and back end of EthDenver.

Front end Hefe & Mycaleum: Many hours were spent planning, scheduling, and working with event organizers to secure panel slots. We also put time into budget management and funding necessary travel expenses for team members while waiting for the initial funding proposal to clear.

Back end NoFuturistic continues to work on post-event content editing and distribution. Hefe & Mycaleum: We have been working on the budget with actual expenses as well as the distribution of costs and compensation. We also put lots of time into crafting this budget extension proposal. TBurd completed his photo album edits and uploading. Smokescreens is working on a b-roll for behind-the-scenes clips and footage. Zombie Shepheard assisting with post-event media delivery and lead follow-up Kontak has large content libraries to edit and share with NF for distribution. Dr. Wagmi and Diddly have continuing BD discussions with project teams that met in Denver.

Funding Request in USD The initial funding proposal [AGIP 60] was $11,723, paid in GHST at delivery on February 11th, 2023.

The requested extension is $19,255 USD, paid in GHST.

We appreciate the continued support and look forward to future IRL activations with the Gotchigang!

Funds should be sent to this Safe address as a single payment on Polygon: 0x376184461aaa5Bd445cd52924Fdf29e8E4b86900